Observer States

The Joint Parliamentary Assembly/Russian Duma Working Group on Chechnya held a meeting in Moscow between 10 and 12 July. The Group, co-chaired by British Lord Judd and Russian Dmitry Rogozin, had talks at the Prosecutor General's Office, at the Ministry of Defence and at the Supreme Court. Discussions were also held with Vladimir Yelagin, Minister for Economic Reconstruction of the Chechen Republic, with the organising committee of the ''round table'' on elections and referendum in the Chechen Republic, as well as with representatives of human rights NGOs.